Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- 权 Quán: 权 Quan2: surname Quan权 quán: 权 quan2: authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary
- prostitute
- evening scene; circumstances of one's declining years
- (of a slave or servant) to be given one's freedom; (of a prostitute) to marry and leave one's trade
- fireworks; prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
- without inconvenience; unimpeded; unhindered; unobstructed; unfettered; unhampered
- hoary head; old age
- (military) (of a city etc) to fall into enemy hands; (fig.) to take a turn for the worse
- half a lifetime
- half (of sth); halfway through
- saying; famous remark
- ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged); civilian (contrasted with the military)
- to give charity to sb; to oblige
- to serve as an official; an official; the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将[jiang4]
- to beg
- ancestor; forebear
- to accumulate; accumulation; cumulative; cumulatively
- offspring; posterity
- well-being; welfare
- to capsize; to collapse; to overturn; to overthrow; to undermine
- four (banker's anti-fraud numeral); unrestrained; wanton; (literary) shop
- 暴 bào: 暴 bao4: sudden; violent; cruel; to show or expose; to injure暴 Bào: 暴 Bao4: surname Bao
- to abandon; to relinquish; to discard; to throw away
- this matter
- to borrow; (used in combination with 給|给[gei3] or 出[chu1] etc) to lend; to make use of; to avail oneself of; (sometimes followed by 著|着[zhe5]) by; with
- to satirize; to mock; to recite; Taiwan pr. [feng4]
- 俟 qí: 俟 qi2: used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]俟 sì: 俟 si4: (literary) to wait for
- to alert; to warn; police
- to melt; to thaw; to defrost; fig. to relax (repression, enmity etc)
- defect; flaw
- world
- 侧 zhāi: 侧 zhai1: lean on one side侧 cè: 侧 ce4: the side; to incline towards; to lean; inclined; lateral; side
- thin; light; flagging; faint
- wanton; unbridled; presumptuous; impudent
- whole body
- to critique; to voice concerns about; ancient form of acupuncture using sharp stones as needles
- within the borders; internal (to a country, province, city etc); domestic
- (bladed) weapons
- 膏 gāo: 膏 gao1: ointment; paste; CL:帖[tie3]膏 gào: 膏 gao4: to moisten; to grease; to apply (cream, ointment); to dip a brush in ink
- 糜 Mí: 糜 Mi2: surname Mi糜 méi: 糜 mei2: millet糜 mí: 糜 mi2: rice gruel; rotten; to waste (money)
- to grow; to grow up; to be brought up
- lust